Example sentences of "we have a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only after February will we have a clearer indication of the European equivalence . ’ |
| 2 | Shall we have a nice cup of tea ? |
| 3 | Can we have a little bit of hush please ! |
| 4 | Can we have a little bit of a discount ? |
| 5 | Can not we have a proper system of no-fault payments for medical injuries ? |
| 6 | One of the authors , Phil Hanson , who is IBM 's consultancy team leader , commented : ‘ While few of our manufacturing companies have proved to be world class , it is good to see we have a significant number of strong contenders . |
| 7 | Why run away from home when we 've a fascinating country of our own ? |
| 8 | but we 've a lovely lot of daffodils , they 're all out now they 're really beautiful |
| 9 | Later this evening , we 've a true story of an American ex-con who decided to fight organised crime by himself . |
| 10 | From the top we had a wide view of the valley with its bands of colour : the blue of the river dotted with white sails , the green fields on either side , and the enclosing tan-coloured deserts . |
| 11 | We asked around , and eventually we had a tremendous stroke of luck . |
| 12 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 13 | Their perception was that we , we had a desperate shortage of staff |
| 14 | We had a live audience of one , Richard 's wife , Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 15 | we had a real glut of lambs , did n't we ? |
| 16 | We had a good field of fire all round in case the enemy came out of the sunken road or over the hedge . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought we had a good chance of tracing the Spidex people through London . |
| 18 | After we left the lake , our friend drove us inland to a forested area where , he assured us we had a good chance of seeing a great grey owl . |
| 19 | ‘ He linked up well with Stuart Pearce and Nigel Clough , and we had a good run of success . |
| 20 | However , amongst those who did come we had a good combination of past experience and new ideas . |
| 21 | We had a good deal of fun doing it . ’ |
| 22 | Once again Benjamin used his warrant , pushing his way through the grumbling spectators until we had a good view of both the execution scene and Smithfield Common . |
| 23 | We were sat in the North Bank ( could n't get tickets for the Leeds end ) , and in the second half we had a good view of the amount of space that the Arsenal forwards were getting , it was unbelievable . |
| 24 | We had a good view of Sao Paulo as we flew over it — so massive , it looks bigger than New York , and you can almost see it grow as you watch it , because all round the outskirts of the city are straggling half-finished ‘ shanty town housing estates ’ , with dirt roads and little hut-like dwellings , as it seemed from the air . |
| 25 | not particularly my cup of tea but mum enjoyed them and they got everybody going and and then we had a good game of bingo . |
| 26 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 27 | ‘ We had a slight difference of opinion in the interpretation of stamping on people . ’ |
| 28 | We had a nice bottle of wine , and whenever he poured it he put his hand over the price-tag which he 'd forgotten to remove . |
| 29 | We had a great sense of family responsibilities being carried into the work place . |
| 30 | But we had a great deal of literature in common , and a love of landscape ; we thought ( Dickens excepted ) the same things funny ; and we had some similar slants of vision . |